Staking His Claim
2007-12-09 21:48:01
By: Gene Bromberg
The odds against making a straight flush are 71,941-to-1, which is not so good. Even worse, chances are when you make your straight flush it'll be in some nickel-dime game where everyone else has rags and you'll pull in a pot full of pennies. It's rare indeed to hit a huge hand like that when it really, really counts.
But that's what happened last night at the final table of the Six-Handed No-Limit Hold-Em event, as TheMiltMan arrived as our chip leader and immediately got involved in a huge hand with pinballguy, who was second in chips. All the money went in after the flop, and on the turn pinballguy hit the miracle nine of clubs to make his straight flush and seize the chip lead.
TheMiltMan never recovered from that hit and went out in sixth place. And that huge hand wasn't enough to propel pinballguy to the title--he lost the heads-up battle to shipaholic, who won $40,750 for his first big tourney win.
But I invite you to look at the name of the player sitting just to shopaholic's left. Yes, that's Greg "Wild Duck" Hobson, who made ANOTHER UBOC final table. And a short-handed one at that. What might have happened had pinballguy not flopped a set of Nines against Wild Duck's pocket Tens...the world will never know. What we do know is that Hobson is making a joke out of the UBOC Leaderboard standings. Though no one seems to be laughing, except for Hobson himself, all the way to the bank.
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